San Francisco Metro System Hacked with Ransomware [Paid $70,000 in Bitcoin]

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Quote from: eternalgloom on December 23, 2016, 12:11:13 PM

Quote from: SmartIphone on December 22, 2016, 09:43:31 PM

I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

I guess it's good that tools like this exist for regular users who are more prone to falling victim to ransomware, but it's quite easy to protect yourself from it without having to use any tools.

1. Don't just download and open files from untrusted sources.
2. Add Noscript and uBlock to your browser and make sure you disable all external plugins like Flash and Java.

By following these simple rules the chances of getting infected should be absolutely minimal.

Simply when you are looking something and you don't think about the consequences then this happened.
Because if we look for a patch/crack then this can probably happen and we disable the antivirus to install the keygen Sad

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Quote from: raja2sumi on December 23, 2016, 06:50:33 AM

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

$70k is huge money? That's less than I paid for my Mercedes. They couldn't even buy my car for their ransom.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on December 23, 2016, 08:27:08 AM

Quote from: raja2sumi on December 23, 2016, 06:50:33 AM

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

Hopefully, now they have learnt their lesson, and will be taking the adequate precautions. Either they should employ an IT security agent, or they should outsource this work to some agency which is good in providing security against these sort of crimes. That said, I am glad that Bitcoin received a nice amount of publicity as a result of this hack.

Well, not good publicity but it's publicity nonetheless. Being just a new bitcoin user I've notice that anonymity is both bitcoin's good and bad trait. Hopefully next time hacking incidents happen they don't blame it on bitcoin coz it's very easy to put blame on things you can't understand.

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Quote from: SmartIphone on December 22, 2016, 09:43:31 PM

I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

I guess it's good that tools like this exist for regular users who are more prone to falling victim to ransomware, but it's quite easy to protect yourself from it without having to use any tools.

1. Don't just download and open files from untrusted sources.
2. Add Noscript and uBlock to your browser and make sure you disable all external plugins like Flash and Java.

By following these simple rules the chances of getting infected should be absolutely minimal.

bryant.coleman

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Quote from: raja2sumi on December 23, 2016, 06:50:33 AM

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

Hopefully, now they have learnt their lesson, and will be taking the adequate precautions. Either they should employ an IT security agent, or they should outsource this work to some agency which is good in providing security against these sort of crimes. That said, I am glad that Bitcoin received a nice amount of publicity as a result of this hack.

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70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

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I don't understand why people would get so upset when ransomware happens,
as this really isn't very different from a hard drive failure, for example.

Also 10 seconds on google gets you links like this:
http://betanews.com/2016/04/27/remove-cryptxxx-ransomware/

and even if you cant decrypt your files now, there will likely be solutions
within a year.

But you cannot fix stupid.

SmartIphone

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I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on December 16, 2016, 04:22:12 PM

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were from America. You're response is perfectly understandable then.

Ironically, you match my perception of the average American pretty closely, speaking as an anti-American dissident.

I'm sure you value reason as much as the next person, so I would remind you that tactics like your photo are the tactics of someone who has lost, and is now trying to use emotion and irrationality to change/avoid the subject. Ironically there was no reason to do so, as I'd conceded my error in the first place.

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Everything has a negative side for which we can't completely ignore it. During the initial days as a value storage coin bitcoin was used much for illegal needs. Later on continued development has made it a high growing investment. So some using it on illegal needs will get into trap soon on improved security advancements.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on December 16, 2016, 04:22:12 PM

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were from America. You're response is perfectly understandable then.

I loves amuricuh where the moto is if it ain't deep fried I ain't not throwing that down my gullet uhhhhhyuckhyuck. Pass the *belch* beer kay hun? I can't get up OUTTA my lazyboy when Springer's on. You know that. or something similar.
But seriously wtf. Ya let's have a real life purge right? That should resolve everything.

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Thanks for sharing, OP.

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Quote from: ebliever on December 16, 2016, 12:00:33 AM

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on December 15, 2016, 02:22:25 PM

Quote from: ebliever on December 15, 2016, 01:56:19 PM

When someone is victimized like this, they don't hate bitcoin. They loath it, with a visceral kind of disgust that prevents their ever seeing it as something they would choose to use. It is the tool of their enemy and persecuter.

So if the bitcoin community wants to survive and thrive, we need to figure out how to destroy the ability of ransomware hackers to utilize bitcoin. Either that or track the hackers down and make them wish to God they had turned themselves into the police rather than facing vigilante justice designed to ensure that no one ever makes the same choice they made.

Yes, savage vigilante justice because that's what god uses against us. Spoken like a true Christian. If we don't agree with them, burn them at the stake, stone them or wage war against them.

Sorry, that was intemperate, wasn't it? I should not have encouraged vigilante action. It's just that I don't have much confidence in secular western judicial systems and their coddling of criminals. (In the United States, for example, the government is so far off the rails of the Constitution that there is no meaningful legitimate government to honor per Romans 13 without dishonoring the Constitution, which is supposed to be our highest human authority.)

But on the flip side you make it sound ("don't agree with them") as if it is just a matter of opinion that what they are doing is wrong, such that it's just intolerant bigots who would lift a finger against them. If we were arguing about what to put on a pizza that would be a matter of opinion. By contrast these are clearly immoral criminal acts of theft and destruction of property.

So I'll moderate my remarks and just ask that if and when authorities catch up with them, that they require the criminals to provide full restitution plus 20% for all the time and money and headaches involved in their activities. They should also be required to personally apologize to any of their victims who is willing to give them a hearing.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were from America. You're response is perfectly understandable then.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on December 15, 2016, 02:22:25 PM

Quote from: ebliever on December 15, 2016, 01:56:19 PM

When someone is victimized like this, they don't hate bitcoin. They loath it, with a visceral kind of disgust that prevents their ever seeing it as something they would choose to use. It is the tool of their enemy and persecuter.

So if the bitcoin community wants to survive and thrive, we need to figure out how to destroy the ability of ransomware hackers to utilize bitcoin. Either that or track the hackers down and make them wish to God they had turned themselves into the police rather than facing vigilante justice designed to ensure that no one ever makes the same choice they made.

Yes, savage vigilante justice because that's what god uses against us. Spoken like a true Christian. If we don't agree with them, burn them at the stake, stone them or wage war against them.

Sorry, that was intemperate, wasn't it? I should not have encouraged vigilante action. It's just that I don't have much confidence in secular western judicial systems and their coddling of criminals. (In the United States, for example, the government is so far off the rails of the Constitution that there is no meaningful legitimate government to honor per Romans 13 without dishonoring the Constitution, which is supposed to be our highest human authority.)

But on the flip side you make it sound ("don't agree with them") as if it is just a matter of opinion that what they are doing is wrong, such that it's just intolerant bigots who would lift a finger against them. If we were arguing about what to put on a pizza that would be a matter of opinion. By contrast these are clearly immoral criminal acts of theft and destruction of property.

So I'll moderate my remarks and just ask that if and when authorities catch up with them, that they require the criminals to provide full restitution plus 20% for all the time and money and headaches involved in their activities. They should also be required to personally apologize to any of their victims who is willing to give them a hearing.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on December 15, 2016, 09:10:49 AM

Very effective anti-virus packages are available for as little as $10 (purchased one just last month from Amazon). Yet, the San Francisco Metro decided that they are too expensive. I guess now they are too happy to pay 7,000x that amount.

What? That is a very simplistic way of looking at things. Almost all Windows users have bought into the scam of antivirus software, yes? Then why are a big percentage of Windows users still a victim of hackers, malware, viruses, trojans, etc...?

Did you not think that the whole antivirus industry could be a scam? Seeing how the world works today, it could be.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on December 15, 2016, 09:10:49 AM

Very effective anti-virus packages are available for as little as $10 (purchased one just last month from Amazon). Yet, the San Francisco Metro decided that they are too expensive. I guess now they are too happy to pay 7,000x that amount.

They probably spent money on that, the problem like always resides with the user, probably a dumb employee opened an email or inserted an infected usb and that is why everything happen, I don't see why regular employees have access to computers with access to the Internet because I don't think the San Francisco metro needs to have its employees connected to the Internet to perform their job.

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Quote from: ebliever on December 15, 2016, 01:56:19 PM

When someone is victimized like this, they don't hate bitcoin. They loath it, with a visceral kind of disgust that prevents their ever seeing it as something they would choose to use. It is the tool of their enemy and persecuter.

So if the bitcoin community wants to survive and thrive, we need to figure out how to destroy the ability of ransomware hackers to utilize bitcoin. Either that or track the hackers down and make them wish to God they had turned themselves into the police rather than facing vigilante justice designed to ensure that no one ever makes the same choice they made.

Yes, savage vigilante justice because that's what god uses against us. Spoken like a true Christian. If we don't agree with them, burn them at the stake, stone them or wage war against them.

ebliever

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When someone is victimized like this, they don't hate bitcoin. They loath it, with a visceral kind of disgust that prevents their ever seeing it as something they would choose to use. It is the tool of their enemy and persecuter.

So if the bitcoin community wants to survive and thrive, we need to figure out how to destroy the ability of ransomware hackers to utilize bitcoin. Either that or track the hackers down and make them wish to God they had turned themselves into the police rather than facing vigilante justice designed to ensure that no one ever makes the same choice they made.

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Ransomware will attack more and more via various ways, even when you install free software, you can not be safe from ransomware. I remember even if you install through servers, you can get ransomware.

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Quote from: Rinder on December 10, 2016, 01:36:17 PM

Quote from: Kprawn on November 28, 2016, 03:10:07 PM

It is bad for Bitcoin. We had visitors last week, and the husband did not know that I am a Bitcoin enthusiast. He started to tell me that he lost

all his Holiday videos and pics, due to some virus that blocked his files and then they wanted.. "something called Bitcoin" to unlock his files. I

sat their red faces, because he blamed this "Bitcoin" technology for what happened to him. I explained to him what Bitcoin was, and that the

technology was not to be blamed for the hack, but he did not want to hear anything about Bitcoin, because he blamed it for his loss. Angry

Even bitcoin get the famous because the hacker information lost, we can see how the fiat system are weeks against hackers, for one side i do see bitcoin as revolutionary currencie, but for other side now hackers can get their money without be traced, this makes bitcoin a big problem, but those big companies should think into a way to protect their system, improve the security, instead of being paying to hackers, but they dont learn security its the main problem, and where they have to invest.

Wrong, Bitcoin can be traced, even if you run it through a mixer service. The tx's are logged in the Blockchain forever. The authorities just have to

subpoena the mixer services for the information. It is a lengthy procedure, so they will not do that for every little hack. The people that used the

Silkroad site, also thought they were anonymous, and then look what happened to Ross.

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